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What's an hour of your time actually worth?

You probably tell yourself you'll fix this after the next busy season. Plug in two numbers and find out what doing $15/hour work is actually costing you, every single year.

The math

Round numbers are fine. The result tells you the size of the problem, not the exact dollar.

$
Best guess at the last 12 months.
hrs/wk
Answering phones, fixing the schedule, chasing invoices, doing the books, smoothing over jobs that went sideways, the work the team should be doing.
%
If you don't know, leave it at 12% (a reasonable home-services average).
Your number
Spending 15 hrs/wk on $15/hr work, in a business doing $2M, is costing you:
$ 163,250 / year
Your effective hourly rate as an owner is $115/hr. That means every hour you spend on $15/hr work is a $100/hr hole, and you're digging it about 780 hours a year.
Hours/year on $15/hr work
780hrs
Profit-equivalent of that time
$163,250
The math

The financial slice of that — the books, the reports, chasing who paid you — Forecast does for $99–$149/mo. Here's how that compares to what doing it yourself is costing you:

Your time leak
$163,250per year
Forecast
$99–149per month, free 14-day trial
First-year ROI
137×recovered vs. $99/mo

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How we got this: effective hourly rate = annual revenue ÷ 2,080 working hours/year × profit margin (you keep what's profit, not topline). Annual cost = effective rate × hours/week × 52. Rough by design, pricing strategy and labor structure shift the real number; the point is the magnitude.
What to do with this number

The math is the easy part. The hard part is which tasks come off your plate first.

Most owners can win back hours without hiring anyone. The easiest place to start is the financial busywork, the books, the reports, chasing who paid, which is exactly what Forecast does for you, automatically, for $99 a month.

Forecast

The financial slice, handled for you

The books, the reports, your real margin, who owes you, and the weekly move, done for you and waiting every morning. The cheapest hours in your week, gone.

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Read

The most expensive employee in your business is you

The full argument behind this calculator: why the owner doing $15/hr work is the most expensive employee in a $2M business, and where to start cutting.

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Stop doing the busywork

If that number bothered you, get the financial hours back first.

Ando connects to your books, does the pulling, and tells you what to do, for $99/mo. Start free, no credit card, or see the live demo first.

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